Aleksandar Vucic

Aleksandar Vucic (5 March 1970-) was Prime Minister of Serbia from 27 April 2014 to 31 May 2017 (succeeding Ivica Dacic and preceding Ana Brnabic) and President of Serbia from 31 May 2017 (succeeding Tomislav Nikolic).

Biography
Aleksandar Vucic was born in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia in 1970, and he worked as a journalist during his youth. In 1993, he joined the Serbian Radical Party, and he became its Secretary-General in 1995, serving until 2008. From 1998 to 2000, he was a member of Slobodan Milosevic's government as Minister of Information. In 2008, Vucic split from the Radical Party and joined Tomislav Nikolic's Serbian Progressive Party, changing his positions on Serbian nationalism. Vucic served as Defense Minister from 2012 to 2013 and as First Deputy Prime Minister from 2012 to 2014, also becoming party leader in 2012. From 2014 to 2017, he served as Prime Minister, and he formed a ruling coalition with the Socialist Party of Serbia. In 2017, he was elected President of Serbia to succeed Nikolic. His critics accused him of leading the country towards authoritarianism.